Yielded Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient…
— David Bentley Hart
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...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
— Smedley Butler
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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring…
— Lucretius
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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
— Dean Acheson
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That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
— Robertson Davies
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There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the…
— Peggy Noonan
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The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
— Mary E. DeMuth
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When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if…
— Frieda Lawrence
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
— Seneca the Younger
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we…
— Philip K. Dick
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One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
— John Burroughs
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For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low…
— Daniel Goleman
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All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
— Helene Deutsch
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It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the…
— Deepika Padukone
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
— Leonard Sweet
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up…
— Mark Twain
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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